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, 7 May 1981
JAPAN REPORT
(FOUO 2y/81)
- C~NTENTS "
POLITICAL AND SOCI6LOGICAL -
- 'tiIAINICHI' Raps LDP's Arrogant Posture
(MAINICHI SHIMBUN, 7-9 T~far 81) 1
Takeda R~marks Critical of Government Defense Policy Analy.zed
(YOr1IUIFI SHIMBUN, 3 Feb 81) 7
- ECONOMIC =
Toyota Production Capacity Set at 3.S Million -
(NIICKAN JIDOSIiA SHI?~IBUN, 4 Feb 8Z) 13
Tanan, USSR To Sign Trade Agreement _
(JAPAN ECONOr4IC JOUR..NAL, 7 Apr 81) 15
Japanese Industrial Investments Overseas on Rise -
(3APAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 7 Apr 81) 17 -
j Changes, Future Direction of Monetary System Analyzed -
~ (Hirohiko Okumu~ra; EKONOMISUTO, 27 Jan 81) 19
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_i Basic ?faterial Industries Face Cheap Foreign Items Threat -
(JADAN ECONOMTC JOURNAL, 31 Mar 81) 30
SCIENGE AND TECHNOLOJY . =
Gre3ter Research, DeveYopment Outlay Plann~d ~
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOIIP.NAL, 31 Mar 81) 31
Technology Cooperation Offered to EC Nations
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 31 Mar 81) 33 =
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Fine Ceramics To Be Used in Making Auromobile r'.ngine
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Toda Begins To Develop Robots '
_ (JAPAN ~CONOMIC JOURNAL, 31 Mar 81) ...........................0 36
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Semi,conductor Makers Will Delay Mass Manufacture of 64K Rams _
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 31 Mar 81)...... .................e.... 37
USSR Aatifies Government of BKP Mills Building Suspension
- ~JAYAN ~CONOMIC JOURNAL, 31 Mar $1) 39
- Yamaha Concelves Nonpolluting Plating Technology ~
(JAPAN ECONOMYC 30URNAL, 31 Mar 81) 40
- Problems Involved in Use of Light Water Rea~:tor Discussed. ~ -
_ (Taisei Toko, et al,.; GENSHIRYOKU KOGYO, Jan 81) 41
Coimnunications Satellite To Be Used To Link Up Research Institutes ,
_ (JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 31 Mar 81) 57
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Kanto D~nka Makes High Purity Fluorcarbon Gas for Circuits ~ i"
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 7 Apr 81)..........~ 58 I_
Genet~c Engineering Symposium is Envisaged
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 7 Apr 81) 59
_ Takenaka Uses Computer To Design Wire Net Core Vessel for Reactors _
' (JAPAN ECONOMTC JOUTtNAL, 7 Apr 81) 60
Hitachi C~emical Eli.minates Use of Gold in Manufacture of IC's
(JAPAN ECONOMIC J(1URNAL, 7 Apr 81}..........a 61
= riicroorganis~v is Used To Collect Seawater Uranium
(JAP~N ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 7 Apr 81) 62
Sharp Developing Amorphous Silicon Solar BatCeries .
' (JAPAN E~ONOMIC JOURNAL, 7 Apr 81) 63
~ Electronic Type Measuring Instrument~ Sa1es iip o~
- (JAP.AN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 7 Apr $1) 64
NTT Will Ease Rules on Leas~d Line Use ~
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURN~,I., 7 Apr 81) . 65
Shipbuiiders Compete in Developm~nt of Fuei-Effici~nt Diesel
Engines
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 7 Apr 81) 66�
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POLITICAL AND SOCiOLUGICAL
~MAINICHIT RAPS 7~DP' S ARROGANT PO~TURE
Tolyo MAINICHI SHIMBUN in Japanese 7, 8, 9, Mar 81 .
~ [Article: "Arrogant Manner o~ the Liberal Democratic Party"] ~
[7 Mar 81 p 2]
_ (Text] A sudden turn toward settlement--but it cannot but be said that t~e Liberal
DemocraCic Party [LDP] has already crossed the RL'~icon. The LDP's act of ramming
~ the vote through the Lawer House budget cammittee or, 5 Mar 81 is clearly in conflict '
with the "politics of harmony" preached by Prime Mir~ister Suzuki. No matter how ~
they patch up things later, the fact remains that the party did revert to its true
character of trying to use force to get things done. What incited tne LDP to adopt
the hard-line pol~.cy and what is its future course? As one of the means of probing
in~to future political trends, the basic makeup of the "deviate LDP" is analyzed
here.
"This is a course of action that had to be taken sooner or later. It could not be
- helped. History will judge the action." Thus c~id one of the party leaders summarize
_ the situation on the night of 5 March, with young Diet members whooping it up in a
victorious mood, after the LDP for the f irst time since its formation, unilaterally
forced its vote through the Lower House budget committee. During the ~eriod when
the conservative and reformist forces were evenly matched, the LDP somehow managed
to keep the Diet functioning through compromise af ter compromi,se with the opposition _
parties. However, over half a year has passed since the LDP regained, af ter a long
perioc?., a stabJ.e majority in the combined Upper and Lower Houses elections of last e
~ I summer. Having operate~i for long in an evenly contested Diet, the LDP had not
-i gotten out of its indolence and the mood of "even-match torpor" had still persisted,
which had been an irri~ant in the party mood, but the atmosphere was completely
changed by the shock treatment of th~e forced eote. The air was cleared, so to
- speak. =
The immediate explanation is that the LDP was acting childishly in trying to erase
at once the "humiliation" it had suftered during the days of an evenly matched Diet.
- However, LDP authorities, who had been running around backstage zo negotiate,
J assert that the action was fundamentally unavoidable, claiming that, "structural
_ problems, which could not be sol.~~ed by clever Diet manipu.lations or through human _
relationships, made the forced vote necessary." Having placed top priority on
financial reconstruction, with the support of the stable ma~ority that it won, the -
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LDP insisted that it would be contradictory to its policies to yield even a step -
to the demands of the op~osition parties for lower taxes. On the other hand, con-
fronted with decreasing real wages because of price increases and with labor circles
organizing for the spriug struggles, the opposition parties could not give grounds
on their demands for lower taxes. The vote was rammed through with these positions
clashing.
- The explanation was that the compromise methods of "seeking the middle ground no
matter what" or the [artfully ambiguous] so-called "changeable color" solution
which the LDP had heretofore considered as their specialities, could not be used
because the confrontation was fundamental in nature. To attai.n financial recon-
struction, the LDP must continue to push for increased taxes, even if it is un-
popular with the people, and f ollow a firm course. There are m,a.ny LDP Dietmen who
earnestly explain that Aiet management would be smoother if they compromised but
when future national interests are considered, tr.ey must choose now the route of
- a forced vote and make apparent ttie conflicting positions.
However, was that really the case? On the night of 6 Ma.r 81, a day later, the con-
- fr_ontation, which was not supposed to allow any yielding, suddenly turned toward
settlement through the good off ices of Fukuda, speaker of the House of Representa- _
tives. The mediation plan was nothing more than a proposal on which the rulitig ;
. and opposition parties could agree without resorting to a forced vote. If such is
the case, the only gain the LDP has to show for the clash with the opposition parties ~
could agree with~ut resorting to a forced vote. If such is the case, the only gain
the LDP has to show for the clash with the opposition parties over the budget adjust-
ments is the experience of having pushed through a forced vote. It can be said that
after its heyday of majority votes, it had to go through a period of tribulations
' of an evenly matched Diet but when it finally regained a stable majority, the I,DP
brought out of the warehouse its moldy hard-line policy. A Diet member of the main- ,
stream faction supporting Prime Minister Suzuki showed his guilty conscience by
stating, ''None of the leading members, who are acquainted with ~he earlier Diet
sessions where votes were f orced repeatedly, are personally applauding this action."
However, such views of the moderates were shown only in rare instances during the
recent disturbance. A veteran middle-of-the-road Dietman, who was the only one
announcing, "I am for a peaceful course," tried to negotiate with the opposition
parties to normalize Che sit~ation. He singly advocated to the prime minister,
the LDP triumvirate and leaders, on the day before the go-ahead deeision was made
for a forced vote, saying "we have to find a compromise." However, he k~as turned
down brusquely with the statement "that's impossible." The recent Dfet performance _
showed that if there is vociferous support within the party, no one can propose
any c~mpromise measure and the party would resort to strong tactics. This might be
- called a case symbolic of the fact that the LllP had entered a~eriod of deliberate
confrontations.
- Whether the cause of confrontation is fundamental in nature, such as ~olicy differ- _
' ences b.~tween the ruling and opposition parties, or erhaXSronll~time willntelll
poli.tica.. sentiment for the evenly contested days, p P Y
The statement that "at any rate, it 3.s certain that the LDP will lose in the next
electian. So we must do what we can now," (by a leading member of the main-stream
faction) seems to truly reveal the feelings of the LDP which 3s girding for con-
frontations.
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[Text] On 7 June 1978, at the Upper House audit committee meeting, Prime Minister -
Fukuda stated, "The auditing power of the Bo~rd of Audit does not extend to invest- ~
mPnt and loan firms or liabilities guarantors dealing with government-related
c~rgans. I hope that the Boa ,
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ECONOMZC -
BASIC MATERIAL I1~iDUSTRIES FACE CHEAP FOREIGN ITEMS THREAT
_ Tokyo JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL in English Vol 19 No 948, 31 Mar 81 p 4 -
[Text]
- 'The Government has decided Import of ethylene glycol subsidize the domestic indttstry
to ask an advisory council to from the U.S. also increased to at the end of this January.
study measures for supporting ~7~000 tons in 1980, up 25 per Informed sources said, how-
basic material industries cent over the previot~s year. ever, "This is far short of
" threatened by increasing im- 'Phe import share increased to ca~sing any effect in the face of
ports of low-priced basic ma- 9.6 per cent in 1980 frnm 1.0 per excess inventories of the in-
cent in 1977.
- terials. such as aluminum in- ~ ~~y d?~u'Y�"
gots and styrene monomer, jm rt of 1 1 chlo- MITi soiu~ces acknowledged -
from the United States. Ac- ~de resin from the U.S. has that Japan is in no position to
cording the' Ministry of Io- also increased to 2,000 tons ask the U.S. for a voluntary
ternational Trade & Indus- per month, 2 pec cent of the to~al ~ restraint on the export of such ~
, try, import of U.S. alumi- domestic demand in Japan, ^~d~~b~ r~~~~~~la sl ~v~eC ~t
num ingots to Ja~an increased from a negligible amount
to 306,800 tons in 1980, three several years ago. '~la~tsBW 8uox ~uoH
Import of petrnch~mical pro- P~e xio~ MaH `uopuoZ ay~
_ times over. that of the previous from the U.S. inc!~eased '4~aB~ �1 ~axae~u ploE ~noua
year. This accounted for 30 per sharply after the price of naph- aBJei e 8vip~nq ;o sata~~q~ssod _
cent of the total import of the ~ aya ;o ~eopdaxs osje aas s~si
metal in Japan, compared with ~W ~terial for such pro- _~i~s ssau~s o~ n-
the 1 per cent share in 1977 be~ ducts, tripled frnm 1978 to 1979. ~ p~ �a,m;eisua.id
a fore the second oil crisis. f1s a result, the price of ethy- m~s a~ueq~xa� us yans ;o
U.S. aluminum ingots which lene produced in Japan has ~ uopeaaa ~ataaptsaoa `a~asyaxa
cost about ~ 100,000 per ton less gone up 30 per~cent higher than ~~~~o~y~o; ay; jo dtysraqutacu
~ than the Japanese found their that of U.S. ethylene which is : ay~ u~ Eur~ed~ai~ed ~uo~; ~Ceme
way into the Japan~se market produced from natural ga~s. The
after the domestic demand in pcice competitiveaess of the -
- the U.S. declined due to the Japanese product has thug
- economic recession. declined sharply.
Imports of petrochemical Due to the increase of U.S.
products, such as styrene mono- products in the Japanese
mer, ethylene glycol, and poly- market. Japanese domestie
vinyl chloride resin, from the petrachemical product makers
U.S. are also on the increase. have been in trouble. -
Import of styrene monomer Aluminum smelters and
from the U:S. to Japan in- Petrochemical prod~ct makers
creased to 81,000 tor~ in 1980, in Japan have launched a l:rge
twice as much ds that of production cutback, but ap~
the previous year, account- p?rently with na success in
ing for 7.3 p~r cent of the total their inventory curtailment. _
imports of such product in MITI purchased about 15,000 _
Japan. The like share in 1977 tons of aluminum ingoPs to help
was only o.2 per cenk -
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
GREATER RESEARCR, DEVEL(1PI~?Td'~ OUTLAY PLANNED
Tokyo JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAZ in English Vol 19 No 948, 31 Mar 81 pp 1, 4
[Text] Japanese enterprises are Among the enterprises, the
manifesting increasing interest interest shown toward RdcD by
in research and development. ' the automakers and auto parts
~ They plan to sharply boost in- I mak~s is espeeially con_
vestments for R&D in 6scal spcuous.
j 1981, beginning April, ac- i Toyota Motor Co., Nissan
' cording to a survey conducted j Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co.
- recently by the Niho~ Keizai monopolized the top three spots ~
_ ~ Shimbun. ~ of the ranking.
- I The survey, 'covering 1,312' Altogether, nine automakers -
firms, showed that R&D in- are included among the top 50
vestments planned for fiscal firms. This is because the
1981 will record a 21.6 per cent automakers see 4he need to
increase ir~m fiscal 1980. increase investments for R&D
_ This means i!?at the share of since the U.S. Big 3 plan to
such Rd~D expenditures to total spend S80 billion by 1985 to
investments will rise o.7 per- develop small cars. ~
centage point from fisca119~0 to Of the automakers, Toyota -
5.1 per cent in fisca11981. intends to set aside ~ 104 billion -
( The high interest shown in of the ~ 161 billion in RdcD
I R&D indicates the strong expenditures in fiscal 1981 for
~ determination of Japanese ~development of FWD (frnnt-
i enterprises to wirt in inter- wheel drive) passenger cars
~ natiunal technological develop~ and cars of lighter weight.
ment competition. ~ The remaining ~ 57 billion
i Entecprises listed among the will be tised on researches for _
top 50 as to amount af RdcD
- ~ expenditures planned in fscal -
- t 1981 include automakers and
~ electric machinery manufac- -
I turers engaged in stiff com-
' petition with American and "
E~opean makers, steelmakers
trying to maintain their .
tachnological lead, and
_ ~ ~ pharmaceutical and chemical
_ ~ firms which are exerting all~ut
efforts to overtake their foreign
~ ' counterparts.
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R&D Expendiwres fuel-conserving enginzs and biggest amount for ft&D in
PlannedforFYtyat increasing the safety aspects of fiscal 1981 among the phar-
lCo~struction basisl the cars. maceutical firms, S11f1 f.112 ~
Rao ch9 ~v~~ents for production amount set aside by Japanese
expena~~ irom
~~.es FY1980 facilities related to R&D are firms for R&D accounts for
believed fncluded in the ~161 only 7 or 8 pee cent of their
t. toyotaMOtor . .....1A1,000 + 41.2
2. NissanMOtor 3J,ooo o.o billion earmarked for fiscal sales, far below the more an
9. MondaMOror........ 8.~00 +~~o.~ 1gg1. Even then, the figure is 10 per cent of leading firms in
4. NiPP~ SfEel 6,eoo -~a.v � the U.S. and Europe. � .
5. Nippon Eleciric..... 6,soo ~ a.~ extremely big.
6. Sumitomo Chemical. S.eoo + a~., Honda already has completed He believed that the RdcD
7. Komatsu. S,~oo r sv.. S~ting to FWD cars. But it expenciitures of~ the Japanese
e. E~sa~ S,ooa + it ~
v, asani Chem. ina..... bsao -~?.s pians to increase its RdrD in- pharmaceutical firms will
10. ToyOKOgyo ~.